Improvement in railroad-car stoves



ARNOLD A. WHEELOCK,'OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT. OF COLUMBIA.'

Letters Patent No. 86,790, dated Februar/ry 9, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT :1v RAILRoAn-CAR sTov'ns.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

*Who- T0 all whom t ma?! 'COMW'W" The reservoir and pipes may be lined with zinc, lead,

Be it known that I, AnNoLD A. WHEELOGK, of the or other materialto prevent oxidation, or their inner city and county-of Washington, in the District of Oosurfaces may be galvanized. Y lumbia, have invented a new and improved Safety- Thefire-chamberisprovidedwithahorizontalscreen, 'Stove for Railway-Cars; 'and I do hereby declare that T, near its upper end, suitable openings t being pro` the following is a full, clear, and exact description of vided therein forthe passage of,` the smoke. the construction andoperation of the same, reference Caremust be taken that n one of these openings being had to the accompanying drawings, making a 'come'under the lsmoke-line, the object of the screen part of this specification, in whichbeing to prevent the coals from escaping through the Figure l is a side view, a portion of the outer wall smoke-flue in case the stove should beaccidentallyoverhaving been broken' away. Y turned. Y

Figure 2 is a horizontal section through line a: a: of The screen may be made of an-y suitable material, fig. 1. cast or wrought, and if necessary, braces may be inter- The 'object of this invention is to construct a stove posedbetween it and the top of the stove, to prevent its for railway-cars, of such a character that if accidentally fracture from the sudden dashing ofthe coals against it. overturned from any cause, the coals, ashes, dto., will The apparatus being th'us constructed, its operation not escape, but the fire will be instantly extinguished. 'is as follows:

In the drawingsy The reservoir is iilled with water by means of funnel A is the body of the stove, made of' either sheet or or cock s, the water being allowed to rise in the pipes cast-iron, and provided with a fire-chamber, the lower as far. as waste-cocks fi fr. part of which is lined with iire-brick B, and 'also with i Fire being now made in the stove, but little heat an ashpan, E, grate G, doors D D, and smoke-flue F, will be communicated to the pipes or reservoir, and if all of the usual construction, the stove being of the any steam is formed, it will escape' through the open- `upright-cylinder pattern. v ings e e.

This stove rests upon and is iirmly attached to an In the event of an accident to the train, such as to annular -or cylindrical water-reservoir, C, which, in its throwpthe sto-ve upon its side, the water will pour into turn, is s upported upon the. legs ofthe stove L L, and the fire-chamber and extinguish the fire. forms a neat and` handsome base, or pedestal, to the The pipes will ordinarily serve as guards to prevent whole device. VThe reservoir is concentric with the the burning of the passengersvclothing. They will also stove, but of considerably greater diamete13as'shown brace and strengthen the upright cylinder.

in the drawings. y The reservoir will act as ballast to prevent the easy From near the rim, or` periphery, of the reservoir, a overturning of the stove. l series of iron pipes, P P P, extends vertically upward, Having thus described my invention, nearly to the top of the dre-chamber, where they bend l lVhat I claim as new, and 'desire to secure by Letters inward vand pass through the wall of the stove, as seen Patent, is-

in g. 1, their lower end opening intoreservoirO, and The arrangement of the openings e e, waste-cock lr, V their upper end into the hre-chamber near the top of and supply-cock s, at the upper end of the bent pipes Y the stove, and considerably above the fuel therein. v P P, when said pipes are employed substantially as 4 One or more of these pipesA is provided with a wasteand for the purpose described.

cock, 1', and, above the level of the ,waste-cock, one of To the above specification of mylinventioln, I have them has a supply-cock, s. signed my hand, this 5th day of November, i863.

All of them have a few small openings, e e, in their ARNOLD A WHEELOGK,

upper Wall, at the elbow above the level of the wastecocks, such openings being either inside or outside of WlilleSSS the stove, as may be preferred. A GHAs. A. PETTIT, A cock, c, is attached to the bottom' of the reservoir SOLON C. KEMON.

O, for convenience in drawing off the water. 

